

Matthias Lupri
Born: 1964
Hometown: Boston
Based in: Boston
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Born: 1964
Hometown: Boston
Based in: Boston
Matthias has been working within the arts all his life in various aspects. His goal is to integrate painting, music, film, photography, narrative, and poetry cohesively, while drawing from life, dreams, symbols, myth, philosophy and psychology.
Born in Germany 1964, Lupri grew up in the wilds of Alberta, Canada with a wonderstruck fascination of nature, flight, arts, and mythical dreams. After years of studying music and touring road life, Matthias ventured to Boston to focus on the study of jazz vibraphone with Gary Burton. After releasing six CD’s of original music and touring internationally, he discovered the parallel symbiosis of painting to music, and started quickly a new direction in 2012. After years as a palette knife oil painter, Matthias has been steadily putting out various series of paintings, showing at galleries, and selling his work internationally.
“In a general reflection on my art and life, I feel that the unconscious and conscious landscape hemispheres collide creating positive and negative tension within our lives. The unconscious has an existence of time immemorial within your myth, while our conscious life ego awakes daily to a fresh new day. So I question; How do we exist through these our entire lives, shaping us toward the past, present and future as one totality? In which way does the essence of it all give meaning to who we are and contribute to our interactions with each other, our earth and universe?
It has been a lifelong search and journey revealing my art through these philosophical and psychological constructs. Art that coexists and works in conjunction with these constructs and with each other: painting, music, poetry, photography, film and narrative. The landscape hemispheres and archetypes create new paths to follow and show themselves as personal empirical motifs within the art abstractly. They prove to be part of the memory, dream, reflection symbiosis.
It is all much a mystery and interesting pursuit.”
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"One can truly find their inner path by letting their work unfold naturally"
What inspires you?
The inner unknown abyss, and the rising images we all have from these depths
Describe your creative process.
Capturing these rising images from the abyss and transferring them to oil and canvas. Sometimes very spontaneously, sometimes with much reflection.
What is the most important tool when creating your work?
Open soul, open heart, open mind.
What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
Just get down to it!
Where do you go for inspiration?
Soul searching inward into the abyss while also being inspired by nature and people.
Education
Emerson
United States of America, 2017
Mass Art
United States of America, 2016
The Road II
United States of America, 2006
Berklee College of Music
United States of America, 1994
The Road
Canada, 1989
Mount Royal
Canada, 1984
Exhibitions
Art Expo NYC
United States of America, 2022
Gallery 67 Solo show
United States of America, 2022
Ambassador Kennedy Exhibit US Embassy - Vienna, Austria
Austria, 2022
Simpatico Gallery
United States of America, 2021
Gallery 444 SOLO SHOW
United States of America, 2021